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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Love Thursday - Love Cake

This cake is an absolute favourite in my house for birthdays. It comes from a well used recipe of my darling late mother, who made this cake her speciality. Today is my son's eighth birthday and he has ordered this cake with the chocolate cream. I have already baked two chocolate cakes for his class to share, he will have another sponge with strawberries and cream for the party on Saturday and then on Monday we have another birthday in the family with another cake...

Make sure that you read right through the recipe before starting!

Torta di Mamma

What you need

One large sponge cake

1 cup of strong black coffee

1/3 of a cup of coffee liqueur

1/3 cup of brandy

1 tablespoon of sugar

1/2 cup cream

cocoa for dusting

What you need for Custard Frosting and Filling:

1/2 cup of cornflour

1/2 cup of custard powder

1/2 cup of sugar

2 teaspoons of Vanilla

1 1/2 cups of cream

2 1/2 cups of milk

30g butter

2 egg yolks, lightly beaten

90g dark chocolate

Frosting and Filling:

Combine cornflour, custard powder, and sugar in saucepan. Gradually add milk, stirring until smooth. Stir in vanilla and cream slowly. Stir continuously over low heat until mixture bubbles and thickens. Add butter and simmer stirring for 3 minutes. Away from the heat mix, in beaten egg yolks. Place in bowl covered with plastic until cool.

Combine cold coffee, liqueur brandy and sugar. cut sponge cake into four layers. Put first layer into serving plate and brush well with coffee liqueur mix.

Spread with half of Vanilla custard. Put a second layer of cake on top and brush with coffee mix but spreading with a third of chocolate custard. Brush coffee mix and alternate the custards until layers have finished. You should have enough chocolate custard to cover the top of the cake, and dust with cocoa powder. Pipe cream around edges.

Alternatively, lick the remaining custard from the bowl and dust with icing sugar!

Morning glory are full of flavour and aroma. This time of the year I love baking to get the house smelling yummy. After a whole summer when the oven is totally banned! I suspected he's not enrolled here...lucky him...dollyna